# Problems with intl. chars in RoR 1.2.x

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-intl-chars-in-ror-1-2-x/88012>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-intl-chars-in-ror-1-2-x/88012 "2007-03-07T15:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zdenek\_Zavadil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/c2a13f/32.png) [@Zdenek\_Zavadil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zdenek_Zavadil)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-intl-chars-in-ror-1-2-x/88012/1 "2007-03-07T15:32:34Z")

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Hello,  
I’ve tried to upgrade my app to RoR 1.2.2, but it broke regular  
expressions working with international characters like ‘á’ or ‘ä’ etc.  
E.g. /xx: (.+) zz/.match(“xx: aáä zz”)[1] returns NoMethodError in  
script/console but it works in plain irb.  
Another strange thing: when I enter any string containing those  
intl.chars in script/console, it hangs.

Am I doing something wrong? I’ve even tried String#chars method, gem  
unicode etc.,but none of them helped.

Zdenek